Santa's Elf Elsa

 I have another card to share for Mo's Digital Pencil today.

This one is using the absolutely gorgeous stamp called Santa's Elf Elsa.

I had a lovely relaxing time colouring this stamp with my Copics and then kept the focus on her by creating a very clean and simple card.  The only embellishment being a little patterned paper and a single white snowflake. 

The beautiful sentiment comes with this stamp too! Bonus :)

Copics used :

R 22, 24, 27, 29, 30, 59

E 000, 00, 13, 21, 33, 41, 42, 43, 44, 53, 55

YG 01, 06, 13

B 00

Y 28

W 00, 1

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

2 Penguin Chicks

I have some exciting news to share today :)

I am now on the Design Team at Mo's Digital Pencil. YAY!!!

I have loved Mo's illustrations for a very, very long time. She is such a wonderful artist and I can't wait to colour and create with some of my favourite stamps.

Seeing Christmas decorations in stores over the last couple of weeks really gave me the push I needed to get working on some Christmas cards. There are so many beautiful ones in Mo's store that it was hard to choose but I thought this one was adorable.  It's called 2 Penguin Chicks and I had lots of fun colouring them with my Copics :)

I created the background by sponging and blending some pistachio, peacock feathers, mermaid lagoon and wilted violet Distress Oxide Inks.

Then I placed a star stencil on top of it and dabbed a damp piece of paper towel through each star to give it a "bleached" effect.

The snow they are standing on is just a torn piece of white card and the sentiment was created using the Bold ABC Die from Whimsy Stamps.

It is a Slimline card but a little shorter than usual as I cut the card to fit a random slim envelope I had lying around.

Copics used :

W 1, 3, 5

BG 0000. 01, 09, 11, 15, 72

BV 0000, 000, 00, 02, 04, 08, 13

Y 15

YR 14, 18

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

I have a Christmas card to share using a gorgeous stamp from Dreamerland Crafts.

This stamp is called We Wish You A Merry Christmas and as soon as I saw it I just knew I NEEDED it :)

Aren't they adorable?!

I used my Copics to colour the images and then used Speckled Egg Distress Oxide Ink around the outside of the panel.

The stars and snowflakes are actually done with sparkly gold and silver pens but unfortunately I couldn't get a shot of them "shining".

I found some old, but beautiful, patterned paper that I decided to zigzag stitch around and tied a little button on with some thin twine.

The sentiment is also from some patterned paper that I've been hoarding but finally decided to cut into :)

Copics used ;

E 000, 13, 21, 42, 43, 44

W 00, 1, 3, 7

R 20, 22, 27, 29, 30, 59

Y 13, 15, 28

YG 11, 13, 17

G 28

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges :

Chocolate Baroque - hand coloured

Crafty Hazelnuts - patterned paper

 Allsorts Challenge - use design paper

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Fly Away With Me

It was my daughter's birthday yesterday and this is the card I made for her.

I chose this cute Gorjuss stamp called  Fly Away With Me  to use as she really loves these girls. 

It is one of their small stamps and so was very quick to colour with my Copics and I used her favourite colours too :)

I created a galaxy background using Distress inks, paint splashes and a few die-cut stars.

I fussy cut the girl out and used foam tape to give her more dimension on the card.

I also used a simple Happy Birthday sentiment from the Up In the Air set by MFT.

Copics used :

E 000, 00, 13, 21, 33, 35, 39

W 00, 1

R 20, 22

YG 01, 13

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges ;

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Bright, cheerful colours

Dare 2B Artsy - Bright colours

Stamping Sensations - fantasy and magical

My daughter really loved her Birthday card!  YAY!! :)

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Irish Fairy

I've had lots of fun playing with my gel plate, stencils and stamps this week :)

With St. Patrick's Day coming up, I was reminded of the stories my Dad would tell me of finding fairy houses in the woods when he was a boy living in Ireland.  I really loved those stories and so I was inspired to create this Irish fairy card.

I used Twisted Citron and Speckled Egg Distress Oxides on my gel press to create a background.

Then I used the Speckled Egg with the TCW stencil - Ethereal.  I also used the TCW stencil - mini confetti and lifted off some of the ink with water and sponged some Black Distress Ink around the edges through this stencil also.

I used these Lavinia Stamps to create the scene : Bella's House, Berry Wreath, Fairy Foragers, Mini Meadow Mushrooms, and Fairy Buttercups. 

I stamped Bella's House separately and coloured it with my warm grey Copics.  I had originally thought of having a colourful fairy house and so had coloured and cut it out a few times but I like the grey version better.  I stuck my other attempts together on the back of this one to give the house some depth without the amount of height foam tape gives.

I sponged around the edge with Speckled Egg Distress Oxide and black Distress ink and added some word stickers and white gel pen for highlights.

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges :

Simon Says Stamps Monday Challenge - use something green

Ink Art Designs - anything goes

Lavinia Stamps - Spring blooms

Simon Says Stamps Wednesday challenge - a bit o' green

Fairy Stamper Hugs Challenge - anything magical

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Play with Style

 

I have a card to share using a new Dreamerland Crafts stamp called Play a Love Song.

I think she is so sweet!!!

The background was created by blending Mermaid Lagoon, Twisted Citron and Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxides.

I wanted a musical background but I don't have a stencil like that so I created my own using a die instead.  I cut a few of the MFT Music Notes dies from a Masking Magic sheet which created my own sticky but repositionable stencil :)  I then applied mermaid lagoon Distress Oxide lightly over the top 2/3rds of the card.

I paired her with a Dreamerland Crafts sentiment from the Birthday 06 set.

I stamped the sentiment with Versamark ink and embossed just the "style" with white embossing powder.

I used some watered down white Gesso to flick dots over the card.

The girl is coloured with copics but I used a silver glitter gel pen to colour her flute.

I fussy cut her out and attached her with foam adhesive for some dimension.

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges :

Stamping Sensations - colour my world

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday- anything goes

Thanks for dropping by today :)

Kathy

Happy Hippos Yay

 

I have a cute birthday card to share today.

As soon as I saw the current MFT colour challenge I just knew I wanted to give it a try with one of my favourite MFT stamp sets,  Happy Hippos.

This trio is adorable and I think almost everyone would love a card featuring them.

I coloured everything with Copics and fussy cut them out.

I adhered them to a scalloped circle die cut and stamped the sentiment which is from the MFT set Birthday Chicks.  I really love this sentiment and it worked out perfectly for this card.

I decided to make it a slimline card and I created the background by using Distress Oxide Inks through a Tim Holtz Gradient Circle stencil.  I was lucky enough to be given this stencil as a Christmas present and it's the first time I've used it.  I LOVE how it turned out!!!  I used Twisted Citron all over the stencil first and then put some Cracked Pistachio over the top of some of those circles also to create a totally new colour (similar to what was needed for the colour challenge).

Copics used :

W 00, 1, 3, 5

Y 000, 13, 15

R 30

BV 000, 00, 02, 04

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges :

MFT colour challenge : 

Stamping Sensations - colour my world

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - slimline card

Thanks so much for dropping by today :)

Kathy